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About Payton McCarty-Simas
Payton McCarty-Simas is a film critic, programmer, and co-editor of The Brooklyn Rail’s film section. Her writing has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Filmmaker Magazine and others, and she is the author of two books, One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture, and That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film.
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“Fear and Cinema Are Inextricable”: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER

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An interview with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa about his newest film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER […]

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“You Can’t Lose the Rage”: Ngozi Onwurah on her film WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME (1995)

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Ngozi Onwurah discusses her radically feminist, Afrofuturist tragedy, WELCOME II THE TERRORDOME (1995), screening in a new restoration at BAM July 31 – August 6 […]

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